Beaches remain closed across the coast

Noosa and Mooloolaba are the only beaches that are open, and the situation will be reassessed this afternoon.

Sunshine Coast lifeguard and northern supervisor Rhys Drury says people should take note of the severe weather warning for dangerous surf.

"The conditions are rough and wild, and we're advising people to stay away from the beaches.

"Only the very keen should head to Noosa or Mooloolaba beaches where the conditions aren't as rough," says Rhys.

The current swell across the Sunshine Coast is two-metres.

Warning extends across the SE Qld

The Weather Bureau says dangerous surf conditions should ease later today as a low moves away from the south-east coast.

More than 100 millimetres of rain has fallen in the past 24 hours on the Sunshine Coast.

Forecaster Ben Annells says it's created a new rainfall record for June at Maroochydore.

"Certainly have seen quite substantial falls of rain during this event on the Sunshine Coast which has managed to create a new record at the Sunshine Coast Airport. We've had about 283 mms up until 9am yesterday. The old record there was 260.6mms in 1999," says Mr Annells.